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JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook, Second Edition covers all the new major features that provide better prioritizing capabilities, enhanced visibility, and the ability to customize JIRA application to meet your needs. We start by upgrading your existing JIRA instance and working through tasks you can perform at the server level to better maintain it. We then delve deep into adapting JIRA to your organization's needs, starting with the visual elements of setting up custom forms to capturing important data with custom fields and screens, and moving on to ensuring data integrity through defining field behaviors. You'll gain insights into JIRA's e-mail capabilities, including managing outgoing e-mail rules and processing incoming e-mails for automated issue creation. The book contains tips and tricks that will make things easier for you as administrators, such as running scripts to automate tasks, getting easy access to logs, and working with tools to troubleshoot problems. The book concludes with a chapter on JIRA Service Desk, which will enable you to set up and customize your own support portal, work with internal teams to solve problems, and achieve optimized services with SLA.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Setting up a Windows domain single sign-on


If your organization is running a Windows domain, you can configure JIRA so that the users are automatically logged in when they log in to the domain with their workstations.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need the Kerberos SSO Authenticator for JIRA. You can get it at http://www.appfusions.com/display/KBRSCJ/Home.

You will also need to have the following set up:

  • A service account in Active Directory for JIRA to use

  • A Service Principle Name (SPN) for JIRA

How to do it...

Setting up the Windows domain SSO is not a simple task, as it involves many aspects of your network configuration. It is highly recommended that you engage the product vendor to ensure a smooth implementation.

Proceed with the following steps to set up the Windows domain SSO:

  1. Shut down JIRA if it is running.

  2. Copy login.confkrb5.conf and spnego-exclusion.properties to the JIRA_INSTALL/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes directory.

  3. Copy appfusions-jira-seraph-4.0.0.jar and appfusions...